Many participants however also imagined a robot that would perform care not through physical contact, but rather through cognitive and social support, which is what SARs are being designed for [1]}. For example, participants imagined a robot that would serve to remind and nudge patients to do self-care activities. One social worker explained, “I may see a client once a week or once every two weeks, and we may come up with sort of a plan to do certain things in between sessions, and a lot of times people get preoccupied and so they don't follow through... programming robots to sort of serve as [a reminder]”(4858). Another doctor went further to specify a specific condition. They explained that someone with a “borderline IQ, to have a robot pal that would remind you how to make your bed, get up, be the `good morning it's time to get up, make your bed, brush your teeth, have your breakfast, oh did you have enough good breakfast'...some of them can't and some of them just don't, but I bet if they had a machine that did it, kind of a cute machine, it might be helpful”(2783). Other participatory-science studies surveying caregivers of people with dementia [2]} and workers with cognitive impairments [3]} also expressed interest in robots assisting with nudges and reminders to help with diminished cognitive capacities due to health conditions.
